|
|
|
|||||
| We Start Where The Media Stop | |||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
| We Start Where The Media Stop | |||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Search News HeadlinesFound 4882 headlines Egypt's abrupt shutdown of operations against tunnels revives missile flow to GazaDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 20, 2009, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00) 
A "strategic" smuggling tunnel for arms
Tuesday, Nov. 18, Egypt's special forces and engineering units suddenly shut down operations against the smuggling tunnels to Gaza without warning to Washington or Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's military sources report. US and Israeli requests for clarifications from Cairo were not answered. So the Obama administration signaled Egypt that if it continues to violate international accords, there will be consequences.
Iran digs hundreds of missile silos - some for misdirectionDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Iranian president looks over his shoulder
The Iranians are frenziedly digging hundreds of new missile launch silos in central and Western Iran in readiness for a US or Israeli attack on their nuclear installations, DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report. The Iranians are working at the same frantic tempo to turn out Shehab-3, Shehab-4 and Sajil-2 ballistic missiles, as well as a fourth secret ICBM which is believed designed to carry a nuclear warhead.
Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas opsDEBKA-Net-Weekly Exlcusive November 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00) As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago. More about this tale of terror and suspense in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE . India's nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attackDEBKAfile Special Report November 20, 2009, 12:57 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Chicago grocery owned by terrorism suspect
The Press Trust of India news agency reported that nuclear plants were put on alert Monday, Nov. 16 in the wake of the arrests in the United States of two suspects of complicity in the Mumbai attacks a year ago in which 171 people were killed. Headley is believed to have visited Indian states with nuclear sites during an advance surveillance tour of the Mumbai targets.
Iran is advancing on dual nuclear bomb track: uranium plus plutoniumDEBKAfile Special Report November 19, 2009, 4:29 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile's military sources report that the UN inspectors' October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011. The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons.
New IAEA report raises fear of more secret Iranian nuclear sitesDEBKAfile Special Report November 19, 2009, 4:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN nuclear watchdog's report on its inspection of Iran's second uranium enrichment site near Qom says that Tehran's belated declaration of its existence raises questions about more still secret facilities. Iran claimed building of the Fordu facility had begun in 2007 and its notification to the IAEA was therefore timely. The inspectors in its still restricted report refute this claim after finding that work began five years earlier in 2002.
Obama's Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffsDEBKAfile Special Report November 18, 2009, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Obama runs slap into Great Wall of Chinese no
Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all.
Controlled US-Israel discord on Jerusalem amid broader strategic understandingsDEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis November 18, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Dubbed the Super Arrow The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the looming nuclear threat from Tehran and to a high degree on the Palestinian question. The US will continue to invest in the Arrow 3 missile interceptor.
Obama sends Bill Clinton to stop unilateral Palestinian stateDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 18, 2009, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00) 
From Kosovo to Ramallah with opposite missions Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. But DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and obstruction of peace talks by demanding that Israel halt settlement activity first were drummed up to camouflage this plan. Due in Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, on a mission to deter Abbas is a covey of US presidential emissaries led by former president Bill Clinton. More details about Abbas' "Kosovo initiative" in the Special Report below.
|
Copyright 2000-2009 DEBKAfile. All Rights Reserved.
Hebrew
RSS Feed
Enlarge
